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Subject: A Sad day for New Mombasa
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It can be done, but the system would have to be tweaked. I'd like to see the mod's have IP Range Banning, personally. But other things can be done to deter spammers.

I'm constantly amazed at how lenient these forums are, I've been on other forums that have an army of trigger hungry mods.

[Edited on 8/24/2004 2:40:19 AM]

  • 08.23.2004 4:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lt Devon
Everyday is a sad day for New Mombasa.


I have come up with a problem solver for everyone! People are all fussed about what the kids are doing to the forum, what the spammers are doing... and whatever this I love/hate bees thing is...

I have kept out of the rumours, the goss, everything Halo 2 related. I have seen 2 game clips and the video of the two Bungie staff playing a demo of the Multiplayer... I liked what I saw, but I didn't rush off to find out all the other stuff I don't know about. I sit here in my ignorance waiting patiently.

This way I am shocked by all the advancements but I'm not let down by what the game has... all these kids have fanciful ideas about new improvements or closer release dates etc. I'll just be here when it comes and take it all in as I work my way through the game. Problem Solvered!

-- Tristan likes his idea, and hopes many people adopt his enlightened thinking, or at least take it into consideration.

  • 08.23.2004 5:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: VII Toast
Posted by: Vella
I'd like to see the mod's have IP Range Banning, personally. But other things can be done to deter spammers.


I would love to see that too....but there are ways to work around that stuff....poo.


Such as an alternating IP address, heehee. My IP changes everytime i turn on the comp for security purposes.

  • 08.23.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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IP Range banning is a lot harder to work around, and it isn't worth it for most people. Most spammers wouldn't know how to use IPCONFIG.

  • 08.24.2004 2:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Banshee Barron
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i don't really think an age-limit would help, since spammers come in all shapes, sizes, and ages...


And because it's easy to lie about your age, unfortunately.


I was apparently born in 1652.

  • 08.24.2004 4:05 AM PDT
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did New Mombasa go down? or is it just gettin spammed so bad i cant get in?

  • 08.24.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Around the time ILB changed, it went down before I could even get in. I bet Bungie shut it down temporarily to avoid the spam.

  • 08.24.2004 7:06 AM PDT

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  • 08.24.2004 10:29 AM PDT

Am I one of the only members who tries to navigate New Mombasa and follow the rules Bungie and the Mods have asked us to follow when we encounter spammers?
There are a lot of new members who ask questions there and get spammed, flamed, or worse, ignored by the juvenile and immature members who (literally) waste their time in that forum.
Helping out the new kids (whatever age they are) by setting good examples is one of many ways to help ensure the Mods won't have as many spammers on their hands in the future.

  • 08.24.2004 1:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Frogwart
There are a lot of new members who ask questions there and get spammed, flamed, or worse, ignored by the juvenile and immature members who (literally) waste their time in that forum.
Helping out the new kids (whatever age they are) by setting good examples is one of many ways to help ensure the Mods won't have as many spammers on their hands in the future.


Amen to that Frogwart. Amen indeed.
Well, it seems Frogwart has taken the words straight out of my mouth. A good point. Setting a good example, however, is difficult because the new guys rarely come onto The Septagon. This is the only real place on b.net where civilised conversation happens. It is my new home. We have debates, not flame wars. Perhaps if new users were made to come and see this forum first, or somesuch, then they would see the better side of b.net, rather than the (mainly) bad in NM.

The problem as I see it is that new users come along, post something, get flamed and therefore think that is the way you are supposed to behave round here. Perhaps if they got a look at the more polite way things are dealt with round here, they would adopt that attitude instead.

  • 08.24.2004 1:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stalin the 31st

Amen to that Frogwart. Amen indeed.
Well, it seems Frogwart has taken the words straight out of my mouth. A good point. Setting a good example, however, is difficult because the new guys rarely come onto The Septagon. This is the only real place on b.net where civilised conversation happens. It is my new home. We have debates, not flame wars. Perhaps if new users were made to come and see this forum first, or somesuch, then they would see the better side of b.net, rather than the (mainly) bad in NM.


The Flood and th Septagon are my new homes. It's kinda sad when it is more civilised in an off-topic forum, than an official forum.

  • 08.24.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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im suprised that most of the new mombasa people actually tried to keep all the ILB info into one topic. i mean, it coulda been worse that it turned out to be yano? im not saying that it wasn't bad, but it coulda been worse.

  • 08.24.2004 7:52 PM PDT

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yea i was surprised the mod did about the same amont of work they do anyday!

  • 08.24.2004 7:55 PM PDT
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New mombasa and The Underground are being spammed to hell by n00bs and idiots who think Halo is the best game Bungie has ever made. In fact, not even 2 minutes ago, I came across a thread made by a guy who just joined today, saying the bungie was full of crap and was using ilovebees as a publicity stunt! Fortunately, the thread was closed, but that won't stop these complete idiots from popping up everywhere in the New mombasa and Underground forums. I hope Bungies figures out a way to deal with these spammers.

  • 08.25.2004 1:55 AM PDT
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When barbecuing veggie burgers, be sure to tie your long hair back. That will keep it away from the flames, you stupid hippie.

I'm a man with a fork in a world of soup.

Posted by: Crimson Kenny
[color=crimson]Where were you guys yesterday? Here's who spammed yesterday:

* da ram man
* davester88
* iLov3Hal0
* sicmind
* Twitches666
* Masterchief5000/Soviet Jackal
* Spartan_Assassin
* Sniper109

da ram man being the worst of the lot. He put down pages of crap in New Mombasa and the Flood.[/color]



how did i get on that?



you're mean

  • 08.25.2004 10:49 AM PDT
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i dunno, there are some good topics in the underground still. theres one up now; very intresting, on the relationship between starcraft and halo. that one is really good. and the underground otherwise isnt really all that bad, it mostly newer people with questions, stupid questions, but viable nevertheless.

  • 08.25.2004 10:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ruze
New mombasa and The Underground are being spammed to hell by n00bs and idiots who think Halo is the best game Bungie has ever made.


Whoa, hey now. You'd be just a little pretentious to say that anyone who thinks Halo is Bungie's *best* game is an 'idiot'.

To say that anyone who thinks that Halo is Bungie's *only* game is an idiot (or at least ignorant) on the other hand...

  • 08.25.2004 11:01 AM PDT
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Crimson Clover

Posted by: sicmind
Posted by: Crimson Kenny
[color=crimson]Where were you guys yesterday? Here's who spammed yesterday:

* da ram man
* davester88
* iLov3Hal0
* sicmind
* Twitches666
* Masterchief5000/Soviet Jackal
* Spartan_Assassin
* Sniper109

da ram man being the worst of the lot. He put down pages of crap in New Mombasa and the Flood.[/color]

how did i get on that?

you're mean

[color=crimson]Well, let's see. You post mostly irrelevant material, so much, that every time I see something posted by you I immediately regard it as spam, and I have a hunch that you're really anewdisease666, only this is one of your many accounts to use once one of your accounts gets banned.[/color]

  • 08.25.2004 2:49 PM PDT
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When barbecuing veggie burgers, be sure to tie your long hair back. That will keep it away from the flames, you stupid hippie.

I'm a man with a fork in a world of soup.

Posted by: Crimson Kenny
Posted by: sicmind
Posted by: Crimson Kenny
[color=crimson]Where were you guys yesterday? Here's who spammed yesterday:

* da ram man
* davester88
* iLov3Hal0
* sicmind
* Twitches666
* Masterchief5000/Soviet Jackal
* Spartan_Assassin
* Sniper109

da ram man being the worst of the lot. He put down pages of crap in New Mombasa and the Flood.[/color]

how did i get on that?

you're mean

[color=crimson]Well, let's see. You post mostly irrelevant material, so much, that every time I see something posted by you I immediately regard it as spam, and I have a hunch that you're really anewdisease666, only this is one of your many accounts to use once one of your accounts gets banned.[/color]



wrong. im really triggerhappysyco, and i wasent banned, i forgot my password

  • 08.27.2004 3:44 PM PDT
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[Edited on 8/30/2004 12:45:11 AM by Reiginko]

  • 08.30.2004 12:38 AM PDT
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Thank you, Reiginko. I agree with you, Stalin. If New Mombasa members could look around here, and see what an intelligent conversation looked like, perhaps, just perhaps, they would start to follow our example.

  • 08.30.2004 4:34 AM PDT
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Crimson Clover

Posted by: sicmind
Posted by: Crimson Kenny
Posted by: sicmind
Posted by: Crimson Kenny
[color=crimson]Where were you guys yesterday? Here's who spammed yesterday:

* da ram man
* davester88
* iLov3Hal0
* sicmind
* Twitches666
* Masterchief5000/Soviet Jackal
* Spartan_Assassin
* Sniper109

da ram man being the worst of the lot. He put down pages of crap in New Mombasa and the Flood.[/color]

how did i get on that?

you're mean

[color=crimson]Well, let's see. You post mostly irrelevant material, so much, that every time I see something posted by you I immediately regard it as spam, and I have a hunch that you're really anewdisease666, only this is one of your many accounts to use once one of your accounts gets banned.[/color]

wrong. im really triggerhappysyco, and i wasent banned, i forgot my password

[color=crimson]Don't come to me with lies, you can't even spell your own name.[/color]

  • 08.30.2004 7:20 AM PDT

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